Guide to configuring laravel on shared hosting

laravel4-on-shared-hosting

Laravel can can hosted in shared hosting environments. One can upload all files into puplic_html(www) folder.This comes with some problems:
    - Exposes your code to the public
    - To view the site you have to use http://your_domain/public or use url rewriting
    
To avoid this you have to separate the public folder from the other laravel files.

This is how i do it:
  1. Create a folder above public_html or www in some environments. Call it laravel
  2. Upload all the files in your laravel application to this folder except public folder
  3. Upload the contents of public folder to public_html or www
  5. Change the application paths. Open laravel/app/bootstrap/paths.php and change 
  
    'public' => __DIR__.'/../public', to 
    
    'public' => __DIR__.'/../../www' or 'public' => __DIR__.'/../../public_html' if your hosting uses that name
    
  6. Change www/index.php or public_html/index.php to locate the laravel folder
  
    change:
      require __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/autoload.php';
      $app = require_once __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/start.php';
      
    to:
    
      require __DIR__.'/../laravel/bootstrap/autoload.php';
      $app = require_once __DIR__.'/../laravel/bootstrap/start.php';

  
Everything should work perfectly now.